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Congratulation for a great season....I know you wanted it all,but runner up is still all some...Congratulation....
McComb Ladies Volleyball Team
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Posted 10 November 2014 - 03:57 PM
With no one graduating it looks like he will need to recruit one or two more to get the big win next year. He recruited from Arlington and North Baltimore, who else in the BVC has talent that can be bought?
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Posted 11 November 2014 - 07:42 AM
Is it true there will not be a Ladies hoop season at Mccomb this year? I have just heard rumors, can anyone confirm or deny this?
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Necklace Experiment #064
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The title mostly explains these necklaces!
They are purely experiments in surface design.
Each one is a hand painted design on 1/8" thick laser cut acrylic (that I design and cut myself) and then sealed on top with super hard resin. Then they are strung on an 18" silver plated chain and clasp.
They are like having mini pieces of abstract art hanging around your neck.
This specific piece measures approximately 2.5" across and 1/4" thick with the resin on top.
If you don't see a color combo you like, then keep an eye out! More will be added here and there depending on my mood.


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Santa World is moving to a new downtown location this holiday season. The exhibit of 22 life sized Santas for around the world will be relocating to 1901 Lakin (beside the Crest Theater and across from the courthouse square). Santa World will be opening Thanksgiving Weekend. Check our calendar of events for more information at www.visitgreatbend.com.
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Black Ops 2 campaign debriefed: time paradox
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's campaign ventures into the future, but do its ideas feel like relics from the past? VG247's Dave Cook investigates.
When it first hit the scene the Call of Duty series retold history by putting a Hollywood slant on real tales of courage and sacrifice. Today, you're essentially James Bond in a fantasy world performing death-defying feats, playing around with gadgets and saving the world from an assortment of maniacs almost single-handedly.
This is perfectly fine, of course, as the series has never been a war sim. Its silly, over-the-top fun for fans of action cinema everywhere, and while it doesn't batter the senses like Modern Warfare 3's 'let's just throw more shit on the screen' ethos, this is a spectacle in its own right.
However, the original Modern Warfare campaign is widely regarded to be the zenith of Call of Duty campaigns despite its relative simplicity, and quite rightly, because it's a focused effort that really stands up if you revisit it today. So much so that many gamers have desperately want the series to match or surpass Infinity Ward's effort.
"It's only when Menendez's endgame is revealed that you actually become conflicted. He's fighting for the 99% – the poorer classes – and the campaign strong-arms you into accepting his cause to some degree."
Treyarch's first Black Ops gave it a decent stab, its tale of redacted CIA dossiers, mind-bending sleeper agents and the madness of Vietnam had the potential to raise the bar, but it got a tad too wacky towards the end to be taken seriously as a epic showstopper.
By looking to the year 2025, the studio has wisely given itself a blank canvas to explore a whole new assortment of global conflicts and expensive new toys, yet continues to fall back on action movie parodies and familiar gameplay issues. But it is still the best contender to Call of Duty 4's crown to date.
The plot kicks off with an elderly Frank Woods retelling the story of how Alex Mason and Hudson rescued him after the events of the first Black Ops. It's during these flashbacks that you're introduced to Raul Menendez, the villain of the piece.
He's a great bad guy – his harrowing past as interesting as the future he's trying so hard to dominate. Dark Knight scribe David S. Goyer has tried to fashion a sympathetic villain in Menendez, but some attempts at pity fall flat, and serve to amuse instead.
It's only when Menendez's endgame is revealed that you actually become conflicted. He's fighting for the 99% – the poorer classes – and the campaign strong-arms you into accepting his cause to some degree.
Two future missions expertly contrast the distinct class divide. The first is a tense battle up a flooded street in Afghanistan as civilians pick through garbage for scraps. The next moment, you're infiltrating a man-made island resort.
It's a holiday paradise where a weekend trip 'costs more than you make in a year', according to protagonist David Mason. The opulence of its shopping districts and garish nightclubs with their pounding dubstep underline a world gone wrong.
All of this makes Menendez's final play – which isn't just to steal America's drone fleet, you'll see when you play it – more poignant, and depending on how much you care about Call of Duty plots, you may be drawn in a little by his goal too.
Before that however, players will travel the globe with Woods and Mason, as the 'numbers' indoctrination rears its ugly head again, and granted, although it's based on low-tech gear, you will experience some of those highly entertaining set pieces that the Call of Duty series delivers so well.
"Once you've had a taste of the future you probably won't want to go back to the past, that is, until you realise that the mess of unanswered plot threads are actually starting to come together, making sense of what, at first, appears to be a total mess."
The future missions are without question the most engaging of the campaign however, offering some genuinely refreshing locales, encounters and equipment to use. It's all set against the boiling threat of a cold war between America and China over natural resources, and Menendez's attempts to manipulate both sides using his fanatical cult Cordis Die.
Although it's a neat set-up that asks some very poignant questions about the very real threat of resource wars in our own future, but the potentially chilling angle falls away to that same old action madness in moments. Again, the latter half of the game sees the plot improve.
All of this is fine to a degree, as Treyarch has rammed as much content and distractions in the mix as possible. For example, an early siege on Menendez's underground facility sees players using stealth cloaks, wing suits, hacked turrets and turret drones in the space of ten minutes. It's chaos.
At points it often feels like Treyarch has attempted to curry favour with gamers who dislike the future setting, as a 1980s attack on a Nicaraguan villa echoes the original game's Bay of Pigs opener.
These are perfectly fine missions, but once you've had a taste of the future you probably won't want to go back to the past, that is, until you realise that the mess of unanswered plot threads are actually starting to come together, making sense of what, at first, appears to be a total mess.
New to this year's offering are four Strike Force Missions that break up the core plot at points. These quick, tactical skirmishes can be failed and will change the backdrop of the game's ending accordingly, such as getting China on your side and other factors.
The hook here is that these missions give you greater control over the battlefield. The first scenario sees your squad defending a drone factory in India from Menendez's forces, and players are given an assortment of troops, turrets and a CLAW mech to get the job done.
You can hop in and out of any single troop or AI tech device at will as you defend multiple objectives from enemy fire. For a better view of the battle you can jump into an overhead perspective and command troops from above.
Battles quickly become a mess as you scramble around with nowhere near enough troops to defend all three objectives at once, and a confusing control system to contend with.
"Strike Force Missions are a proof of concept that real tactical play could work in a Call of Duty paradigm, but a lot more work is needed to nail the formula down."
It makes sense over time, but every time you restart you will lose a strike Force Team, meaning you can't complete all four missions. You're not given enough time in the heat of battle to properly adjust and understand to Treyarch's new ideas.
You will eventually – near the end of the mission timer – have so few enemies to worry about that these solo attempts become possible, but at the outset the action quickly becomes bewildering as you try to remember which button does what. More room for practice runs is needed.
Insanely harsh timers are also punishing for newcomers, offering little margin for error. For all of their rough edges however, Strike Force Missions are a proof of concept that real tactical play could work in a Call of Duty paradigm, but a lot more work is needed to nail the formula down.
It's a shame, but these shortcomings mirror many prevalent issues across the Call of Duty saga that refuse to go away. You still can't open most doors on your own, instead being forced to wait for your AI buddies to stack up and do it for you, and at points it feels like you're forever chasing HUD markers.
Granted some areas have been widened considerably and do lend opportunities to approach objectives as you see fit, and hidden weapon and tech caches offer incentive to explore rooms off the beaten path, even if they are just an arm's length away.
The corridor nature of the series can only be masked so far by widening it a little, so it would be genuinely refreshing to see those battlegrounds expanded significantly to match the locales from Halo, or to a lesser extent Crysis 2.
An early mission on horseback sees Woods and Mason riding around a massive desert expanse, but there is only one proper path. Straying too far will cause the mission to end, or for you to be torn down by enemies. It's an illusion, even if it is a very attractive one.
There is still no real incentive or scope for experimentation, exploration or initiative. There is still a deeply ingrained carrot and stick mentality at work here, and although such restrictive design gives rise to the set-pieces fans know and expect from it, Call of Duty has the potential to go much bigger.
Perhaps the next generation will yield such a shift in scope? It's difficult to tell, but it's clear that Treyarch has attempted to address many of the series' campaign issues over the years, and for the best part it has merely papered over the bumps, rather than stamping them out completely.
Play areas are slightly bigger, the corridors have more junctions and the visuals are a relative step up, and as such, the Black Ops 2 campaign is indeed a super effort despite its flaws. But these are flaws that become less tolerable with each passing year.
Something's got to give, and it feels like this is confidently the biggest step in the right direction for some time. Love or hate the end product, Treyarch deserves kudos for having the balls to try and trigger the sea change we now need. Your move Infinity Ward.
- This review was written using a retail copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 bought by Dave himself at £44.99 and reviewed at home. VG247 did not attend the game's official review event.


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(Pocket-lint) - The Acer Aspire 4820TG is a product of continued refinement from the computing giant. Acquisitions and rebranding have taken place in the attempt to move the "Acer" branded machines away from the bargain basement end of the market (where eMachines lies) whilst still retaining definition from their "consumer lifestyle" models (Packard Bell). Not only is it from the Acer Aspire line, but it is the evolution of the Timeline launched last year, so gets the X moniker. Despite being launched as such it still comes packaged as the Aspire 4820TG, leaving us scratching our heads as to what it will be called.
But heritage aside, the Acer Aspire 4820TG on trial here is the 14-inch version, which blends portability and power into a convenient package. As with the previous Timeline models, there are also 13.3- and 15.6-inch versions available. It measures 341 x 240 x 30mm (30mm being at the rear, where the battery causes a slight bump). The screen itself is only 6mm thick, so it has a nice neat profile - good looking even.
The lid is skinned with brushed aluminium which gives some rigidity, but there is still a degree of twist when you pull on a corner and your screen will still be vulnerable to knocks from the outside. The screen is surrounded by a customary black glossy plastic bezel, housing a webcam.
The choice of materials almost hits the mark, but we can't help feeling that Acer should have stuck with a simpler approach. Instead you are left looking at five or six different sections which are all a different colour or finish. We do like the palm rests though, the brushed look surrounding the trackpad is smart.
The construction is par for the course for Acer and you won't be surprised to find a bit of flex here and there. Above the DVD drive on the right-hand side the plastic flexes at its worst, although you'll find the deck moves in most places you apply pressure.
The keyboard is reasonable: as with most current Acer models, the keyboard offers-up isolated flat keys, which are large enough to hit accurately when typing at speed. The biggest problem the keyboard has, however is again flex. We noticed movement across the keyboard, especially just right of centre around the UIJK keys, suggesting is isn't well enough supported. It doesn't stop the keyboard being fast to type on, but it doesn't have the premium feel you'll find elsewhere, especially as this level of Timeline is asking for a fair amount of cash too.
The layout of the keys is pretty good however, with function shortcuts for media control and to toggle the other usual features like Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.0. Rather than cycle through on/off combinations for both devices, it pops-up a management window so you can quickly make your selection. Emblazoned above the keyboard is Dolby Home Theatre Virtual Surround Sound with two speakers.
Many notebooks are looking to boost their sound offering as we get involved in watching streaming movies and so on and the 4820TG benefits from this addition. The Virtual Surround Sound certainly works, but it also lacks any sort of bass, and distortion is noticeable when turned up loud. As always, it will be easily bettered by a set of headphones.
The screen is a glossy 14-inch, LED backlit, number with a native resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. That means it qualifies for the HD tag and given its size we feel it is a high enough resolution, although there are rival notebooks out there which offer more at this screen size. The limited resolution actually does you a favour of you want to play games however, as the 4820TG also comes with an ATI Mobility HD 5650, giving you 1GB of dedicated graphics memory (but there are some model variations, so check carefully before you buy).
That, combined with the 4820TG's 2.27GHz Intel Core i5-430M processor and 4GB RAM mean that you won't have problems using this notebook for a bit of gaming too. We loaded up Modern Warfare 2 and found that it ran with no problems, which is great in a portable machine. HD content is handled with no problems too, be it Flash content in HD online, or from your video camera.
What is interesting about the graphics is that you also get an onboard Intel GMA HD graphics solution as well as the GPU. This doesn't show the smart switching that Nvidia Optimus does, but it will switch with power modes. Unplug the mains and by default the 4820TG moves over to the onboard solution and makes a number of power saving moves.
What it won't do is detect when you need to use the GPU and make that change for you and you can't use it whilst the graphics are in use, so you can't be watching a video and then switch mid-way through. You also have to be careful to make sure that no applications are blocking the graphics switch, so you can press the power saving button and it will change modes without changing the graphics – something to watch out for.
However, the onboard graphics will handle the likes of HD video playback, successfully tackling the Full HD camcorder samples, and Full HD Flash video too. Pressing the power mode button will switch you back, so if you suddenly feel the need to do something graphically intensive whilst mobile, you have the freedom to do so.
There are battery options available for the 4820GT. We had the standard 6-cell battery which offered over 6-hours in power saving mode watching a little video and generally surfing the internet and carrying out basic tasks, although this will vary depending on what you ask of it, and basic offline word processing will give you closer to the cited 8 hours. In high power mode the battery will drain quickly: fire up a game and you'll be lucky to get 2 hours from it. There is also a 9-cell battery which promises 12-hours of power saving life.
Physical connectivity is pretty good too, offering 4x USB2.0, Ethernet, VGA and HDMI, so you can connect the 4820TG up to a larger display to take advantage of the graphics power it offers. There is also a card reader on the front edge of the notebook offering to read Sony's Memory Stick, SD/SDHC, and xD-Picture cards.
The trackpad is especially nice on the new Timeline. It is incredibly smooth and large enough to be practical. A scrolling area runs down the right-hand side to easily move up and down pages without having to resort to the keys. The one piece button bar across the bottom provides just the right amount of travel too.
Given the relatively powerful specification, it is no surprise to hear that the 4820TG does run hot, with noticeable exhaust pumping out the left-hand side, the fans of which can be a little noisy, as is the DVD drive. Our test model came with a 320GB hard drive and was running Windows 7 Home Premium.
Compact, well specced and fairly lightweight (just over 2kg), the Acer Aspire 4820TG makes a tempting proposal for those who want to travel and not compromise on performance too much. An obvious downside is the construction quality, with a little too much flex evident. We'd have like to have seen a more advanced switching graphics system too, but it's nice to have the option.
There are some really nice touches here, but given the price tag of £899, some might want to see a little less flex across the body. But you can't deny that Acer have put together a notebook that is both practical and powerful in this new Timeline X model, the 4820TG.


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Hi folks,
Here's a card I put together using them all.
The background diamond paper is from our Spooktacular Digital Paper Set
I used at the very back the Circular Trick or Treat Sentiment. I made duplicates of our Pumpkin Kitty (I flipped over/mirrored one of the stamps so they would face different ways on each side)
In between the two cats I added Coral the Witch
Then using this weeks "Witch Kitty Frame" I cut the center of it out and raised it to sit over the top of the other stamps using double layers of foam dots
I repeated the same process with the foam dots on the Witches Birthday Ticket Sentiment
Other things I used to make this:
sewing machine using zig zag stitch
Martha Stewart fence punch
Pumpkin ribbon and colored buttons
Oh yes, almost forgot, I finished the kitty frame by tying a little bow around his hat.
Well I hope you enjoyed this post and I would love to see what you have made with our September Friday Specials. Feel free to send them to me or why not post them on any of groups (SNR, Papercraft Planet and our newest group The Crafter's Cafe) all links are on the right of our sidebar.
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Howard County police: 4 students charged in cabbie's attempted murder
Oakland Mills High School students charged as adults
Four high school students have been charged in the attempted murder of cab driver.
Authorities have arrested four Oakland Mills High School students from Columbia and charged them as adults in connection with the attempted murder of a cab driver in early March.
Police said Khalid Khahiem Woods, 19; Johnam Perez-Rivera, 16; Woody Rousseau, 17; and Chellby Ofosusafori, 17, were charged in the March 1 incident.
A Columbia Flyer taxi driver, who had just been assaulted, called police around 10:45 p.m. that day and told police he got a call to pick up four male passengers on Sweet Fern in Columbia.
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Woods was arrested at his home in Columbia; Perez-Rivera, Rousseau and Ofosusafori were arrested at Oakland Mills High School without incident.
Woods, Perez-Rivera and Rousseau were all charged with second-degree attempted murder, conspiracy, armed robbery, robbery and assault. Woods and Perez-Rivera are still being held at the Howard County Detention Center on $350,000 and $250,000 bond, respectively. Rousseau was released on $200,000 bond.
Ofosusafori was charged with conspiracy, armed robbery and robbery. He is being held at the Howard County Detention Center on $100,000 bond.


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That seems to be the shared philosophies of the Mariners and Rangers, who have been busy importing former Angels as they try to overtake the three-time American League West champions.
Chone Figgins and Casey Kotchman have moved to Seattle, giving the Mariners superior defense, quality offense and a whole lot of desire.
Texas, meanwhile, has upgraded its bullpen with Darren Oliver joining Darren O'Day and given the offense another lethal weapon with Vladimir Guerrero bringing his bat to an Arlington playground he has made look very small in his six AL seasons.
All that's left is for the Mariners, Rangers or A's to sign free agent Garret Anderson, who'd look especially good in Seattle with best buddies Figgy and Kotchman.
The Mariners and Rangers certainly have improved with these moves. Seattle also added a second ace to its rotation, with Cliff Lee joining Felix Hernandez for what could be the best 1-2 punch in the division. Texas also brought in a potential ace in Rich Harden, but it surrendered one when it sent Kevin Millwood to Baltimore. It remains to be seen how beneficial that will be, hinging almost entirely on Harden's ability to get through a season intact.
The Angels are looking primarily within to replace the departed, having thus far limited their acquisitions to DH/left fielder Hideki Matsui and reliever Fernando Rodney. It says a great deal about the depth of organizational talent that they can do this and remain confident that they're still the team to beat in the division.
Their deal for Scott Kazmir at the Aug. 28 deadline enabled the Angels to let John Lackey go to Boston for a king's ransom. They wanted the big Texan back, but not for five years and $82.5 million.
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Of the AL West clubs, Seattle has made the most dramatic moves, obviously. If they're going to claim the division, they'll do it in a style reminiscent of the '60s Dodgers: dominant starting pitching, defense and speed. They don't have anything close to the power of the Angels or Rangers, but their defense should be the best in the game.
It is remarkable, in a sense, that the Angels' biggest advantage over the vastly underrated division is their offense.
For years, fans have fired off emails by the hundreds expressing disenchantment with a lack of clout. But this is an offense that should roll up big numbers again with Matsui driving the ball in the middle of the order and Brandon Wood, if he fulfills his potential, bringing another loud bat to the mix at third base.
Their overall balance and depth make the Angels the team to beat again. You'll hear differently from insiders who want to be able to boast in October that they told you it would be Seattle's year, or Texas' year. They conveniently forget those predictions when the Angels prevail.
Recent history shows rather conclusively you'll save face — and money – if you resist betting against Mike Scioscia and Co.
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It certainly is awkward seeing so many old faces spread out in the division! I do wish the very best for all of them but still they are competition! How awkward will it be when we face Vladdy or Figgy? Or heck if we face Lackey?!
Seattle looks very good thus far and even Texas is improving. Looks like we're gonna have ourselves a dog fight and I welcome it with open arms yet a bit nervous. Oh well maybe now we won't be called "a weak division" by the media anymore. I always appreciate the positivity and enthusiasm Mr Spencer!
Fret not Angel fans. The Angels will be as solid in 2010 as the team that won 97 games in 2009.
Kazmir replaces Lackey (and is 5 years younger), Matsui gives them a more patient bat than Vlad and another lefty, Wood is ready to man the hot corner and Shields returns.
Plus Aybar, Kendrick, Mathis/Napoli, Morales, Rivera, Jepsen, Palmer and Bulger all proved they were major leaguers in 2009. And who knows about O'Sullivan and Reckling. Plus there is still time to pick up a 5th starter if the Angels really need one.
Seattle can have Bradley, Figgins and Kotchman because who follows after King Felix and Lee? Do they have anyone to match Santana and Saunders after the Angels go with Kazmir and Weaver? Sure don't.
Did Texas really get better with Harden and Vlad? Harden hasn't started more than 24 games in recent history and who knows how long Vlad will last this year. And who replaces Marlon Byrd?? Too many question marks about the rotation too considering all their young guys had bust out years and now have to be the front liners.
Now that Matthews is gone, is there any chance that the angels could sign Edmonds to a 1 year deal? He would be very cheap and more productive than Willits


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Abstract:Mt John Observatory was founded in 1965 at Lake Tekapo in the center of the S Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by the University of Canterbury and is NZ's only professional research observatory for optical astronomy. It is the world's southernmost observatory at 44 degrees S. The main topics for research have been the study of variable and binary stars, extrasolar planets, microlensing, asteroseismology and astrometry of asteroids and comets. There are four small telescopes at Mt John, the largest with an aperture of 1.8 m. High resolution stellar spectroscopy has been a major activity for the last four decades using echelle spectrographs designed and built at the University. A new high res compact high resolution fibre-fed vacuum echelle called KiwiSpec was recently developed for other observatories and is now manufactured commercially by KiwiStar Optics in NZ. In the last ten years astro-tourism has also been an important activity. About 150,000 tourists visit Mt John every year during the day or for a guided night tour. The night sky is very dark and unpolluted; we have a lighting ordinance to minimize light pollution and an International Dark Sky Reserve covering over 4000 square km centered on Mt John.
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Orgenesis Announces Management Changes
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orgenesis Inc. (OTCBB:ORGS) ("Orgenesis" or the "Company"), a development-stage company with a novel therapeutic technology dedicated to converting a patient's own liver cells into functioning insulin-producing cells as a treatment for diabetes, announced today the appointment of Sav DiPasquale as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. DiPasquale succeeds Jacob BenArie, who has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company's private subsidiary, Orgenesis Ltd.
Mr. DiPasquale has a strong history of executive leadership success within the life sciences industry. Prior to joining Orgenesis, Mr. DiPasquale worked with GlaxoSmithKline Inc. ("GSK"), a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company, for over 16 years in Canada. There, he served in various technology and marketing capacities including his most recent role as Vice President, Business Development and Corporate Planning. Among his many accomplishments at GSK, Mr. DiPasquale established and managed a multi-million dollar business unit focused on Type1 diabetes. He also led the creation, launch and management of a $50M GSK venture capital fund in Canada purposed with helping to commercialize Canadian scientific innovation from start-up and emerging life sciences companies. Mr. DiPasquale holds a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Toronto and has completed the Executive Program at the Schulich School of Business.
"We are very pleased to have attracted a business leader of Sav's caliber to the Orgenesis executive team. His extensive and demonstrable record of accomplishment in helping to commercialize new technologies in diabetes and other therapeutic areas will be a great asset for the Company going forward," said Orgenesis Chairperson, Vered Caplan.
Ms. Caplan continued, "On behalf of the Orgenesis Board, I would also like to thank Jacob for the many significant contributions that he has made to the Company's success. We look forward to continuing to work closely with him in his new senior management role."
"I am driven by the promise of this opportunity to improve the lives of people living with this disease," said Sav DiPasquale. "And I am very much looking forward to being a part of the Orgenesis team and bringing this therapeutic technology to market."
About Orgenesis Inc.
Orgenesis (OTCBB:ORGS) is a development stage company with a novel therapeutic technology that employs a molecular and cellular approach directed at converting a patient's own liver cells into functional insulin producing cells, as a treatment for diabetes. The Company believes that converting the diabetic patient's own tissue into insulin-producing cells overcomes the problem of donor shortage and removes the risk of transplant rejection. If successful, this could mean the end of diabetes, as we now know it. For more information visit: www.orgenesis.com.
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The Hope College Concert Series will feature AG Silver with special guest Josh Schicker on Tuesday, Oct, 13, at 8 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
Admission is $5 for the general public and free for Hope students with a current ID. Tickets will be available at the door.
AG Silver consists of Jon Ornée, vox, piano, guitar; Chris McKellar, guitars; Craig Vanderwier, drums; and Josh Blom. Bass, Blom and Ornée are both Hope alumni, as is Schicker.
Before embarking on a nation-wide "Clean Water for Africa" Tour, which began in September of 2008, AG Silver spent much of the summer locked in the studio crafting "Love Keeps No Score," a five-song EP that is a progression from where the band left off on its full-length album from 2006 "Wake Up and Smell Reality." This time, though, AG Silver enlisted the help of mixing guru Craig Alvin (Athlete, Eisley, Chevelle).
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AG Silver officially released "Love Keeps No Score" to a sold-out crowd at the Park Theatre in Holland on Dec. 6, 2008. It was the band's first hometown show in eight months and capped off a whirlwind journey during which time the band recorded the new album, toured in over 30 states, racked up nearly 30,000 miles on the band RV and raised over $15,000 for the organization Blood: Water Mission.
AG Silver first partnered with Blood: Water Mission for a "Clean Water for Africa" Tour in the fall of 2008. The goal of the tour is to raise awareness about the clean water crisis in the continent of Africa and also to help raise money to dig clean water wells in communities that desperately need them (more information is available at www.agsilver.com/cleanwater).
2009 finds the band continuing their partnership with Blood: Water Mission on their "Clean Water for Africa" Tour while also spending a significant amount of time pursuing some non-touring aspects of the music world including national radio campaigns.
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Day One of the tournament proved uneventful for the most part. One exciting game was the first of the day when Cal State Northridge gave Memphis a good run. Another good one was watching American University (not to be confused with National American University, who I'm sure has an outstanding Online athletics program) lead much of their game against Villanova. Neither, however, made game-of-the-day status.
A few notable points from Day One:
1. Domination of the day: UConn manhandled Chatanooga with head coach Jim Calhoun in the hospital. Their margin of victory (56) was the 3rd largest in the history of the tournament.
2. Best name of the day: Quincy Pondexter of Washington. Runner-Up: A.J. Slaughter of Western Kentucky.
3. Performance of the day: Memphis' Roburt Sallie. The guy averaged 13 ppg this year, but exploded for 35 today, including 10 3-pointers! He more or less won the game for Memphis.
4. Best game of the day: UCLA vs. VCU. VCU's superstar Eric Maynor was short on a shot as the buzzer sounded that would've won them a trip to round two.
5. Upset of the day: 12-seed Western Kentucky over 5-seed Illinois. This is the upset of the day simply because it was the only one. I also picked this one.
6. My picks for day one: a respectable 13/16.
7. Gopher Review: A.J. Abrams singlehandedly blew the game open against my beloved Gophers by hitting four of his eight 3-pointers in a 2:11 stretch. As a result I will cease showing any respect to people named A.J. Minnesota actually played a good game with the exception of those 131 seconds. I said yesterday that A.J. Abrams would be the reason the Gophers could lose…unfortunately I was very right.


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Spas, flower shops, and brunch spots have it easy when it comes to Mother's Day. Their pedicures and petunias pretty much sell themselves. What do you do, though, if your business doesn't offer "traditional" Mother's Day items?
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- Power drill – At face value, a power drill seems like a gift that's more for dad and less for mom. Paired with a coupon to make those garden boxes mom's been wanting, though, and it becomes a thoughtful gift. Keep a few customizable coupons at your checkout, so dads can fill them in with special messages at the time of purchase.
- Hot wings – The best thing about hot wings is that they're often served up in pizza joints and other family-friendly restaurants. If you run a restaurant, offer a Mother's Day discount on both dishes dads will love (wings) and meals for kids. An offer that appeals to dads and kids alike will get them into your restaurant and give mom what she really wants for Mother's Day: time to herself.
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- Home theater – A home theater brings the cinema experience to the home, and when the movie is a video of her family, this is a gift mom can love just as much as her teenage kids. Encourage customers to install home theaters just before Mother's Day and to surprise moms with a special viewing of those soccer games and birthday parties she's caught on video over the years.
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What is the process in an MP's mind whereby he announces carbon targets which will cripple the ordinary person in the UK and he does it in a happy, positive frame of mind?
How does he manage to not hear anything the people are saying in, say, the Mail article but not only there – in other publications too and certainly in the blogosphere?
It's laid out quite clearly in people's comments up and down the country – take your pick of comments:
The UK 'green' subject must be independently investigated in terms of effectiveness, affordability and a UK/world perspective, remembering those UK millions who can only sit in the cold. Meanwhile, recent news items: a booming Indonesian car industry and sales, with the roads absolutely clogged with traffic (as shown in the film); world tourist numbers forecast for China in 2020 are 100 million (*million*) due to rising economic prosperity. Think of all those flights, ships and car-journeys. There will be other relevant stories around the world, involving the 6,941,000,000 people living outside the UK. Just how is making UK energy unaffordable to the less well-off, working, unemployed or ill in the UK, considered the 'right' thing to do? Only those not affected can have such opinions in the light of research, world statistics, the miniscule UK population and CO2 contribution. Politics may insist we must "do our bit", but surely not by leaving people in the cold all their lives?
26,000 UK citizens dying of cold related problems this winter. What does this so called caring government do about it, that's right they just ignore it and slap more taxes on fuel, hidden under the guise of a green tax. Meantime politicians continue to rake in thousands of pounds for themselves acting on behalf of these so called green companies. What a scandal, living on the fat of the land while the old, poor and infirm die in their thousands.
The only way Cameron could be viewing this is that he is mid-term and his minders cynically remind him the British voter is an idiot and simply puts in one of the Big 3 come election time anyway, no matter what has been done to him in the interim.
Meanwhile, Nigel should be scourging the country up and down, telling Yeo, Cameron and all of them exactly what the UK thinks of them but is he doing that? No, he's playing the same numbers game the Big 3 are, going soft in Eastleigh in the hope that his huge support will arrive next year.
It ain't gonna arrive if he shows no spine, if he's afraid of doing a Beppo but in an alternative government sort of way. Will someone in the UK please stand up and show a bit of spine – tell these bstds where they get off. We all have energy bills due soon – I shudder to think what it will be in my case. I don't think I'll be able to pay it.
Cameron must deal with the energy companies but he can't do that if he's in thrall to them. It really will come down to demonstrations on the streets of London or wherever Cameron is found.
At my place, Wiggia says:
After all the recent exposure of this cretin he is now about to move this amendment, and still not a murmur from Cameron or anyone else about what is a blatant conflict of interest, this is now becoming bloody ridiculous.
So not only are we to be bullied by the prefect but it is to be done in a criminal manner.


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LONDON – Ian Chan doesn't know where he would have wound up if he hadn't become a quadriplegic in a motorcycle crash at age 15. But it might not have been a good place.
He was a rebellious kid, hung with a bit of a bad crowd and didn't have much of a focus.
But really, what kid does at that age? For many, it's all about challenging authority and having fun, finding the next party.
That's where Chan, a Richmond kid, was headed the night before a Vancouver Molson Indy race 20 years ago.
"My friend pulled up on a motorcycle and had an extra helmet. He'd already been giving some other friends joy rides up and down Steveston Highway.
"I had a choice to jump on [his] bike or get on a bus to head downtown to an underage dance. It was 'Oh, I don't want to ride a bus when I can get on a bike.' I jumped on, there was an accident and the rest is history."
Chan doesn't remember the violent crash, but the skid marks on the road leading to one of those concrete barriers that held the fencing for the race indicated the pair were going at a high rate of speed.
The friend escaped with a broken ankle. Chan was left an incomplete quadriplegic with limited hand and wrist function.
"I was probably not headed in the right direction [in life], so the accident was a bit of a blessing in disguise," he says.
A couple of years after the accident, after trying track and tennis for those with a disability, he gravitated towards wheelchair rugby, the fast-paced, bruising game that finally takes to the Paralympic stage beginning Wednesday. Now, 35 and a co-captain of the national team, Chan is a top goal scorer in the international game that features such violent crashes in specially re-inforced chairs that it was initially dubbed Murderball.
It took some coaxing to sell him on making a full commitment. "The coach was a d---, he road me hard," he says, adding that he was still trying to find himself and hold onto to parts of his old life.
But when he did commit, he quickly became a dynamic presence on Team Canada.
"It may sound like a cliché, but I truly believe my life is better because of my accident," says Chan while sitting on a patio of the Athlete's Village on a warm London afternoon.. "I don't live a life of regret or anything, because I wouldn't have met the people that I've met.
"I wouldn't have had the life experiences I've had . . . travelled and seen the world like I have. I feel like my life is so rich with life experience, I couldn't trade that for anything else."
That does often sound like a cliché and so rehearsed coming from an athlete with a disability, but there is something genuine about the, polite, soft-spoken Chan that makes it believable.
He admits it sounds "strange" to hear himself say he wouldn't take anything back, though he concedes that wasn't the feeling in the immediate weeks after the crash.
"I would have never thought that when I was laying in the hospital bed, being fed out of tubes and can't even get out of bed without puking. That was a tough part of my life.
"But the body is an amazing piece of machinery. I tend to block out a lot of those painful moments in those early years and now I just focus on the good things."
Chan is in his fourth Paralympics, having been part of a silver medal winning team in 2004. Canada took home bronze in 2008 and the team believes that if things break the right way, a first ever Paralympic gold is possible in London.
"It's the one thing missing on my mantle," says Chan, who was part of Canada's world championship gold in 2002. "There's definitely a fire to reach for that goal, the one thing we've been working so hard for for the last four years. I'm hungry. I've dreamed of it since my first Paralympics in Sydney.
"It hurts to think of how close we've come."
The Canadians lost to the powerful U.S. 55-53 in the final of the Canada Cup at Richmond Olympic Oval in July in a tournament that featured the same eight countries competing at London. The Americans are the two-time reigning Paralympic champions, but there is great parity.
Canada opens round-robin play today against Australia, the Beijing silver medalists.
Chan won't say how long he'll continue to play, but says he's passionate enough about the game that he does see himself staying in it as either a coach or administrator
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The Jacques Torres Recipe' instead of the New York Times Recipe. Whatever title it's given, the recipe has been discussed, dissected, and now I'm tossing my thoughts into the ring, too.
The recipe is full of nuances and uniquities, making it unlike any other chocolate chip cookie recipe I've tried. The full recipe yields 18 five-inch diameter cookies that use a whopping 3.5 ounces of raw dough each. That's two to three times the size of most homemade cookies and puts these squarely into the jumbo-bakery-sized cookie realm. We didn't need 18 whoppers all at once, fearing they would go stale before we'd eat them all, and so I halved the recipe, yielding nine jumbo cookies and one slightly smaller cookie. You could likely make the full batch of dough and either freeze the pre-baked balls of dough or freeze the finished cookies. I'm sure either freeze similarly well to other doughs or finished cookies if you prefer to make the full batch.
Halving the recipe was a good choice because the cookies are great on baking day as expected, but by the second day they were so-so, and what lingered into the third day was not my kind of cookie. They were hard, dry, and a bit crumbly. Some people expect that cookies just don't hold up into the second and third day, but I am used to the Cooks Illustrated Thick And Chewy Recipeand various deviations I've created with it over the years. Those cookies do stay soft for days, thanks to a higher ratio of brown to granulated sugar. Because brown sugar absorbs atmospheric moisture, the cookies, paradoxically, get softer rather than dry out, as time passes.
The NYT recipe is unique in that it calls for two types of flour, bread flour and cake flour. Bread flour has a higher protein level than other flour, about 12.7% protein, which is a couple points higher than all-purpose flour, which is usually in the 1o- to 11.7-percent range, depending on the brand. The higher the protein level, the more gluten that's present, the stronger the rise, and also the chewier the resulting item. Bread flour creates chewiness in bread, and as I've discovered it does the same for cookies and I loved the resulting extra chewy effect.
Cake flour is on the opposite side of the spectrum. Soft, downy, light, and airy. It's what angel food cakes and tender-crumbed birthday cakes are made from and although it's great in cake, it's typically not used for cookies because it's too soft and cookies baked with it won't have good structure. However, because it's paired in conjunction with the big strongman known as bread flour, the two balance each other.
The downside of using cake flour is that it has a powerful aroma and smells strongly of a box of cake mix. I love the scent of cake mix, and the smell of birthday cake or Funfetti cake, but not inside my chocolate chip cookies. I have a very keen sense of smell and with every bite of chocolate chip cookie, it felt like I was simultaneously eating a white graduation party sheetcake or birthday cake and I did not care for this.
An additional consideration is that the average person may not keep both bread and cake flour on hand. I do, so not a biggie for me, but a consideration nonetheless if you have to purchase two bags of flour just to make cookies. However, buy the bread flour anyway because I have lots of bread recipes coming and you'll need it.
The next consideration is that using a digital food scale is nearly mandatory for these cookies. Many grocery stores sell them in the baking supplies aisle near the flour and sugar and if you order online, you can find deals. I use the EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale in red. It's $25, I've had it for years,it's not super fancy, but it gets the job done. I don't bake by weight as much as smart people in other countries tend to do, but when I do, I'm reminded that I need to do it more often because it makes things so much easier, faster, and more accurate.
For example, bread flour is heavy and dense, and cake flour is light and airy. If measuring by volume in traditional measuring cups, '1 cup flour' can be an inconsistent measurement, whereas measuring by weight on a scale is absolute. The scale also made halving the recipe a breeze. Halving numbers in ounces is much easier than trying to halve fractions and when I have cookie dough on the brain, I'd rather not try to halve fractions in my head with my stand mixer whipping and flour flying.
Additionally, there is no way I could have accurately guessed what a 3.5-ounce mound of dough looked like without using a scale. It's much more dough than I would have guesstimated, and without a scale, I would have grossly under-estimated it.
The next nuance is that the dough must be chilled for at least 24 to 36 hours before baking. If you are in a must-have-cookies-now mood, these are not the cookies for you as they do require at least a day's worth of advance planning. The chilled dough may be used in batches, and can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours. In general, chilling cookie dough not only results in cookies that spread less when baked and that stay puffier, but in the case of these cookies, it's been suggested this waiting period allows the flavors and flours to meld. Since I always chill my dough before baking cookies, sometimes up to four days beforehand, the chilling and waiting period was nothing out of the ordinary for me.
I actually find it easier to make cookie dough one day, store dough balls in the fridge in a little container, and bake them just before I want fresh and hot cookies. Sometimes I bake two balls of dough at a time because nothing beast a just-baked cookie. If within four days or so I haven't baked off the dough, I toss it into a labeled ziplock and freeze it. When you're ready to bake the frozen dough, you don't even need to thaw it and I find baking for an additional minute or two is all that's necessary.
The recipe also calls for specialty chocolate; chocolate disks which are sold at Jacques Torres Chocolate, and Valrhona fèves, which are oval-shaped chocolate pieces, sold at Whole Foods. I cannot afford to use high end chocolate in cookies, especially in ones I wasn't sure I'd love. Instead I used my trusty Trader Joe's semi-sweet chocolate chips and they were more than fine. Whatever kind of chocolate you use, you'll need lots of it. Halving the recipe required 10 ounces of chocolate and so for a yield of nine cookies in the half batch, that's over one ounce of chocolate per cookie. A standard bag of chocolate chips usually has ten to twelve ounces of chips in it; so for nine cookies, essentially a whole bag of chocolate chips is needed.
When mixing the chips into the dough, it almost felt like the dough couldn't possibly hold one more chip and I learned by making this recipe that I can stuff more chocolate into other cookie doughs I make; it will all magically hold somehow. I loved that the cookies were bursting with chocolate chips and were intensely chocolaty. The one ounce-plus of chocolate per cookie is like eating a little chocolate candy bar baked within a cookie. Rich much?
When it came time to bake, almost two full days after mixing the dough, 44 hours to be exact, I weighed the dough balls to ensure I was doing everything as prescribed, down to the tenth-of-an-ounce.
The dough for one NYT cookie is like three of my normal cookies rolled into one massive hunk. Below are three one-ounce mounds that I smooshed together to create one bowling ball of dough. Well, baseball at least. The theoretical advantage to baking cookies this big is that the edges should bake up chewy, while the centers should stay soft. In reality, this theory did not work well with these cookies so I was very skeptical that the baseballs would give me the chewy-yet-soft results I wanted, but they delivered.
I learned something very valuable by making this recipe and if for no other reason than this discovery, I am glad I made these cookies. Since making the NYT cookies, I've tried making other types of cookies using two to 2.25-ounces of dough and realize I like them better than my typical one- to 1.25-ounce cookies. Sometimes bigger is better, to a point. I like cookies in the two-ounce range or slightly over, but 3.5 is just too big for a snack for me and is more like a meal, via one cookie.
I did not sprinkle sea salt on them before baking, a personal choice in the interest of taste-testing comparison. I wanted 'classic' chocolate chip cookies like I grew up with and since my mom and Grandma never baked cookies with sea salt, I omitted it here.
The recipe indicates to bake the cookies for 18 to 20 minutes at 350F. Because they're huge, they need more time to bake than typical cookies. I baked the cookies one tray at a time because I have one 'perfect' rack in my oven and took no chances with these 44-hours-in-the-making bundles of joy. I baked the first batch of six cookies for 18 minutes and the second batch of four cookies for 16 1/2 minutes. I strongly preferred the 16 1/2-minute cookies and in my oven, baking for 20 minutes according to the recipe, would have ruined them. At 18 minutes, the edges were browned and the tops were on the glossy side; at 16.5 minutes the edges were slightly less browned and the tops were glossier, but still set. I allowed the cookies to cool on the baking tray for 10 minutes, then I placed them on a wire rack. They firmed up very dramatically during the ten minutes and by the time I transferred them to the rack, they had essentially finished cooling.
In any recipe, I tend to use the lower end of listed ranges and treat them as guidelines, not absolutes. Let common sense and your personal taste preferences be your guides when you deem something done. I frequently calibrate and test my oven temperature, and know that it's functioning up to par. However, I believe baking times in many recipes are too lengthy to create soft and chewy cookies. I prefer Mrs. Field's style cookies, very ooey and gooey, and overbaking is not the way to my heart. With most any cookie recipe, if you wait to pull them from the oven until they look done, most of the time as they cool, they will set up firmer and crispier than ultimately desired. These were just on the edge of that cliff and in my oven, 16 1/2 minutes (below) would be the max for future batches.
I wanted to love-love-love these cookies and wanted them to be the last cookie recipe I ever needed. I wanted to give them an A+ and if I was going by looks alone, they look exactly like a cookie 'should' look to me, and for appearance they get an A+. But we all know life, and cookies, is about more than just looks.
On baking day, for taste, I give them an A+. Fresh and hot out of the oven, they were simply stunning. Then again, most cookies are. In terms of texture, they center is tender and the edges are very chewy. If you like a chewy, sturdy, firm cookie that you really have to use your jaw to cut through, you will love these. They are the opposite of these, which melt in your mouth. There is nothing soft and airy about them, thanks in large part to the bread flour.
My major complaint is that the cookies didn't age well and by the second and third day they became far too dry, hard, and crumbly for my preference. Especially considering the NYT cookies are so big, and because no one can realistically pound down an entire batch on the first day (holiday parties and feeding football teams not withstanding), I expect the leftovers to hold up for at least 48 to 72 hours. This lack of shelf life is was disappointing and the Cooks Illustrated recipe wins by a long shot here.
The other major issue is that the taste of the cake flour was unpleasantly discernible. I love cake and I love cookies, but not a cake within a cookie when I just want a good, classic, chocolate chip cookie. I do have a sensitive palate and keen sense of taste and smell, and I think things like this may be magnified for me, but even Scott who isn't a supertaster and normally doesn't know his zucchini flecks from his chocolate chips, asked me why the cookies smelled and tasted a little bit like birthday cake. Ahem.
Overall, the cookies fall in the B+ to A- range for me. I recommend trying them because you may absolutely love them as millions do and they may become your A+ never-need-another-recipe chocolate chip cookie recipe. Don't be dissuaded by the two flours, the extended chilling time, or any trepidations in my review. I am simply being very cautious about proclaiming them as the 'best cookies ever' because as a food blogger who bakes hundreds of batches of cookies every year, I am judicious and on the tentative side when handing out those solid A ratings. I don't want every single cookie I make to be 'the best cookie ever that will change your life' as I see happen so frequently on blogs.
And on baking day, these were the best and who cares if it was short-lived. That means you'll just have to eat your way through a batch of these cookies, quickly. There are far worse things.
New York Times Chocolate Chips Cookies {from Jacques Torres}
The cookies are unique in that both bread flour and cake flour are used in the dough; the bread flour gives incredible chewiness and the cake flour keeps them light. The dough must be chilled for at least 24 hours, up to 72 hours, before baking the cookies. Although the active work time with these cookies is no more any other chocolate chip cookie recipe, be sure to budget in for the waiting period. They're jumbo, big bakery-style cookies, just like you'd find at your favorite coffee shop with extra chewy edges and soft centers and I halved the recipe as it's written below; see followup notes under the recipe.PRINT RECIPE5 5 / 5 (1 Reviews)Did you make this recipe?LEAVE A REVIEW »
2 cups minus 2 tablespoons (8 1/2 ounces) cake flour
1 2/3 cups (8 1/2 ounces) bread flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
2 1/2 sticks (1 1/4 cups) unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups (10 ounces) light brown sugar
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (8 ounces) granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 pounds bittersweet chocolate disks or fèves, at least 60 percent cacao content (chocolate disks available from Jacques Torres or Valrhona fèves, oval-shaped chocolate pieces, are available at Whole Foods; I used Trader Joe's semi-sweet chocolate chips)
sea salt, for sprinkling over cookie dough prior to baking
- Sift flours, baking powder, baking soda, 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt into a large bowl; set aside.
- Using a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars together until very light, about 5 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Stir in the vanilla.
- Reduce speed to low, add dry ingredients and mix until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds (I did about 20 to 30 seconds).
- Drop chocolate pieces in and incorporate them without breaking them.
- Press plastic wrap against dough (or place dough in an airtight container) and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. Dough may be used in batches, and can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours (I baked mine just shy of two days later, at 44 hours)
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat; set aside.
- Scoop six 3 1/2-ounce mounds of dough (the size of generous golf balls) onto baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up; it will make for a more attractive cookie.
- Sprinkle lightly with sea salt and bake until golden brown but still soft, 18 to 20 minutes. (I baked first batch of 6 cookies for 18 minutes, and baked second batch of 4 cookies for 16 1/2 minutes; I prefer the 16 1/2 minute cookies). Transfer baking mat or parchment paper to a wire rack for 10 minutes, then slip cookies onto another rack to cool a bit more. Repeat with remaining dough, or reserve dough, refrigerated, for baking remaining batches the next day. Eat warm, with a big napkin.
I made a half-batch of what is written above and this was plenty. Although the full batch 'only' yields 18 cookies, they are jumbo cookies and 9 jumbo cookies was all we needed at one time before they would go stale. The pre-baked dough or finished cookies will likely freeze as well as other types of dough or cookies if you prefer to make the full batch.
I highly recommend using a digital food scale for this recipe. Because bread flour is so heavy and dense, compared to light and airy cake flour, measuring by volume in measuring cups, i.e. '1 cup flour' can yield very inconsistent results; whereas measuring by weight on a scale is absolute. The scale also made halving the recipe a breeze; halving round numbers in ounces is much easier than trying to halve fractions. The cookies need to be baked in 3.5-ounce balls and there is no way I could have guessed this accurately without using scale.
Although the recipe calls for specialty chocolate, the Trader Joe's semi-sweet chocolate chips I used were more than fine. I did not include a sea salt sprinkle.
I baked the cookies one tray at a time because I have one 'perfect' shelf in my oven and wanted to use just that shelf. I baked the first batch of 6 cookies (all cookies were 3.5 ounces) for 18 minutes, and baked the second batch of 4 cookies (3 cookies were 3.5 ounces and 1 cookie was 2.5 ounces) for 16 1/2 minutes. I prefer the 16 1/2 minute cookies and in my oven, 20 minutes would have ruined the cookies. At 18 minutes, the edges were browned and the tops were on the glossy and opaque side; at 16.5 minutes the edges were slightly less browned and the tops were more glossy but still set. With cookies, if you wait to pull them until they look done, most times as they cool, they will set up too hard.
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NBC News has fired a producer who was involved in the production of a misleading segment about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida.The person was fired on Thursday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the disciplinary action who declined to be identified discussing internal company matters. They also declined to name the fired producer. A spokeswoman for NBC News declined to comment.
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